Mini-Course Concluding Activities
Content Overview: So here you are, ready to continue your portfolio development. What have you learned? What are your next steps?
Concluding Activity 1: e-Portfolio Basics: Reflecting on What You Have Learned
You have learned quite a bit about professional standards and e-portfolios in this course! Answer the following questions to frame your plan for continued portfolio development.
Unit 1: WordPress Basics
a. How do you know that your basic WordPress skills are strong?
b. Where do you see your area(s) of challenge using the WordPress site as you move forward in the development of your portfolio?
Unit 2: New York State Teaching Standards and the APPR
c. How does understanding and being familiar with the Standards support teaching and specifically, your teaching practice?
d. What is it about the Teaching Standards' connection to the APPR that is still unclear to you?
e. How can you use the APPR and the Teaching Standards to provide evidence of your effectiveness in teaching?
Unit 3: Artifacts
f. Why is the artifact selection process so important to demonstrating your effectiveness as a teacher?
g. How would you go about changing your selected artifacts each year in response to your continued professional growth?
Unit 4: Feedback
h. In what ways can applying feedback from "the Knowledgeable Other" improve your practice?
i. How does responding to others' feedback expand reflection and accelerate professional growth?
j. Which, if any, of these assessment questions are not essential in nature? :)
Concluding Activity 2: Using Resources For Further Development of Your Portfolio:
You are now ready to continue, independent of this course, designing, developing, and maintaining a professional teaching e-portfolio. Congratulations!
Consult this source for valuable tips and strategies from the world of online graphic artists: [1]
We began the course with a video of Dr. Helen Barrett, whose work I will respectfully acknowledge by ending with her vision of developing and maintaining e-portfolios: [2]. Consulting this source will give you endless ideas from the consummate e-portfolio authority. Best of luck with your portfolio and your practice. Congratulations on your success with WordPress Portfolio for Teachers!
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